“You have a choice everyday, You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.”

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

Success should not make you think you are God’s gift to mankind. You should never forget that you are what you are because God chose you to be there.

I don’t start a film with the heroine but with the cinema subject. If there is a woman in the story, she has to be of a particular type. It’s not as if I start with Madhuri Dixit and then think what kind of film.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.